Pelosi Pro Impeachment Finally

I have not yet finished turning all of the original articles of impeachment for George W Bush into audio, but there has been some progress made.

Nancy Pelosi now wants the Judiciary committee to take action on the impeachment of George W Bush. This is one of the most positive flip flops I've heard of in recent times and very welcome change of mind given the abundance of new facts about transgressions made by the Bush Administration.

Here's a quick interview also from Dennis Kucinich who has come out with a refined and more focused single article of impeachment to possibly move Congress past a tipping point of for Impeachment.

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HILL: Why do you think that it may have a chance? I understand you brought 30 articles of impeachment last time — just one this time. What happened to the other 29?

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KUCINICH: Well, this article that — I just came from the Florida House so — where I introduced it. It is very narrowly focused. It's about the communication that the president made to the Congress, a specific message asking for Congress to pass an authorization for the use of force, in which certain representations were made that would induce Congress to vote for the legislation. And categorically, the key representations that were made were false, I stated so, and provided the sources for my article on the floor of the House just moments ago.

HILL: So did you pick the article you thought was the strongest and then just decide to go with that one this time?

KUCINICH: Well, I'll tell you what — yes, let me tell you what the title of it is. It says that Article 1, deceiving Congress with fabricated threats of Iraq's WMDs to fraudulently obtain support for an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq.

So what I said is that all of the talk about weapons of mass destruction — nuclear weapons, biological, chemical weapons — they were false. And the White House had information that indicated that they knew that they were false and they proceeded anyway, so there has to be an accounting. We have to protect our constitution. This country must rely on truth in our communications to the people. And so this process of impeachment will, hopefully, help produce the truth.

HILL: This is one of the times where that the goings on Washington baffle me — many times, they do. But maybe you can help me sort this one out. Last time you brought this up, the Republicans voted to bring it to the floor to actually discuss it. The Democrats voted to basically push it into the closet in a committee. Why?

KUCINICH: I think the Republicans were basically daring the Democrats to move forward with it, sensing that there were some in the Democratic leadership who, at the time, had no stomach for a real debate. But I think that's changed, and I think it's changed because the war grinds on. We have 160,000 troops there. We have — over 4,160 troops have lost their lives. Tens of thousands are injured. The cost of the war go over $3 trillion, and a million innocent Iraqis dead.

I think as people come to accept the enormity of this, they're saying, "Wait a minute, maybe we should find out if that strip was necessary — if, in fact, the war was based on something other than the truth.

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Its not the most light hearted topic generating funny t-shirts left and right and making headlines on The Daily Show, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't benefit from the attention of more people of younger generations. This issue needs some righteous indignation to help fuel it and kick things off. It might just get that as more people head back to college over the next few weeks and get re-engaged in politics.